ENG034 GENERAL COURSE
SYLLABUS
COURSE
TITLE: College Reading II CONTACT/CREDIT
HOURS: 4
INSTRUCTOR: D. L. Richardson-Hall (LA175, ext. 3671 & KC329,
ext. 6671)
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This
course is designed to provide an opportunity for you to learn and adopt reading
skills and strategies that will enhance your ability to function as an
independent college reader. You will
have an opportunity to reinforce these skills with individualized assignments
in a laboratory setting. You will
receive feedback on your progress by taking regular vocabulary and
comprehension quizzes, as well as chapter tests. The midterm exam is an essay on the text, Who Moved My Cheese? The final exam is an oral report on any
fictional literary novel approved by your instructor.
COURSE SUPPLIES:
1. Required texts: A
COMMUNITY OF READERS 3rd Ed. – (Alexander-Lombardi)
ADVANCING VOCABULARY
SKILLS 3rd ed. – (Nist-Mohr)
WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? – (Johnson)
2. 3-Ring binder – loose leaf notebook with paper
(NO spiral pages)
3. Black or dark blue pens; Red pen or pencil (for corrections/ editing);
Pencils
(for use only during lab or
tests)
4. Course Outline
- Always keep your course outline with you in every class. You will need to
refer to it at crucial times. It is your
contract with your instructor and serves as a timetable for the course. (Try it for all of your courses!)
GENERAL EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
You will be able to:
1. Apply critical thinking skills to all of your college
assignments
2. Utilize strategies to improve reading, writing,
speaking, and listening skills
3. Recognize different perspectives emanating from a
culturally diverse campus population
COURSE OBJECTIVES
You will:
1. Learn to expand your vocabulary through the use of
context
clues and word
parts
2. Practice
identifying and expressing main ideas and supporting details in
reading selections from college textbooks
3.
Practice making inferences, drawing conclusions, summarizing, and
paraphrasing
4.
Learn to take notes, interpret visual aids, and anticipate test
questions.
ATTENDANCE:
The English faculty have adopted
this policy about attendance: “Students
are expected to attend ALL classes. A student who misses six class hours* may be withdrawn from the course, or, after the withdrawal
deadline, be failed in the course.” (*1
class hour = 50 minutes)
METHODS OF EVALUATION:
Evaluating
your progress in this course is one of the ways in which we support you in
becoming
a successful student. Your course grade
will be based on:
·
Vocabulary Tests 25%
·
Timely completion
of course assignments 25%
·
Midterm/Final
Exams 25%
·
Quizzes 15%
·
Lab Attendance 10%
A = 93 -100 B+ = 87 - 89 C+ = 77 - 79 D = 60 - 69
A- = 90 - 92 B = 83 - 86 C = 70 - 76 F
= 0 - 59
B- = 80 - 82
THE CLASSROOM AS A LEARNING COMMUNITY
This faculty member
would like to welcome all students into an environment that creates a sense of
community pride and respect; we are all here to work cooperatively and to learn
together. With that as our goal, I would
like to reinforce behaviors that are conducive to that aim, and discourage
behaviors that disrupt and distract from the process.
In order to create a
smooth and harmonious learning community, please make every attempt to come to
all the class sessions, to come to class on time, and to stay until the end of
the class meeting unless you have previously informed the instructor that you
must leave early. In that case, you
should select a seat close to the room’s entry/exit, so as not to disturb
others upon departing. This
consideration should also be taken in the event that there is a time when you
are unavoidably late for class. Once the
class session has begun, please do not leave the room and then re-enter unless
it is an emergency. If you must miss a class meeting
for any reason, you are responsible for all material covered, all
announcements made in your absence, and for acquiring any materials that may
have been distributed in class. In
addition, please turn off your cell phone/pager while class is in session.
It is important that we
are all able to stay focused on the class lecture/discussion. For this reason, only one person at a time in
the class should be speaking. Side
conversations are distracting for surrounding students and for the instructor.
Also, please do not bring food or drink into the classroom.
As you can see, simple
norms of courtesy should be sufficient to have our class run in the best
interests of everyone involved in this learning process.
AMERICANS WITH DISABILITlES ACT (
It is the policy of